Marion
Marion names 5 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Marion FRANCIS, an American military officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FRANCIS, an American military officer; born near Georgetown, S. C., in 1732. His education was very limited, and he was brought up as a farmer. At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, in 1775, he was elected to ८ GENERAL FRANCIS MARION Congress, but shortly afterward obtained the command of a company in the regiment of Col. William Moultrie, taking a conspicuous part in the capture of Fort Johnson and in the defense of the forts at Dorchester and Sullivan's Island. In 1777 he was dispatched with 600 men to the defense of Georgia, where he served till that State was overrun by the British. During the time that elapsed after the ill-advised attack of the American forces on Savannah, and the subsequent Vol. VI-Cyc-І capture of Charleston, S. C., by the British, Marion, now an invalid, owing to the accidental breaking of a leg, was conveyed from place to place to avoid capture. But when he grew able for service, he gathered a band of young patriots about him, and formed that brigade which afterward became famous for its exploits. He disbanded his brigade in 1782. He died in Pond Bluff, S. C., Feb. 27, 1795.
Marion a city and county-seat of Grant co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and county-seat of Grant co., Ind., on the Mississinewa river and on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, the Toledo, St. Louis and Western and the Chesapeake and Ohio railroads, 68 miles N. E. of Indianapolis. There are a normal college, a Natio National Home for Disabled Veteran Soldiers, a public library, waterworks, National banks, street railroad and electric light plants, and daily and weekly newspapers. It has rolling and malleable iron mills, manufactories of glass, etc. Pop. (1910) 19,359; (1920) 23,747.
Marion a city and county-seat of Marion co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and county-seat of Marion co., O.; on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis, the Hocking Valley, the Erie, and the Pennsylvania railroads; 45 miles N. of Columbus. It contains a public library, Sawyer Sanitarium, St. Mary's School, waterworks, electric light and street railroad plants, normal school, and daily and weekly papers. It has manufactories of carriages, steam engines, dredges, pianos, mattresses, etc. Pop. (1910) 18,232; (1920) 27,891.
Marion county-seat of Williamson co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
county-seat of Williamson co., Ill., on Illinois Central railroad, 18 miles E. of Carbondale. It is a shipping point for grain, tobacco, and live stock, and the products of its factories include shoe machinery, gloves, and bric-à-brac. Coal mines in neighborhood. Pop. (1910) 7,093; (1920) 9,582.
Marion a city and county-seat of Linn co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and county-seat of Linn co., Iowa, on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad, 6 miles N. E. of Cedar Rapids. Its industrial establishments include railway shops, and its factories turn out flour, cigars, and brooms. Pop. (1910) 4,400; (1920) 4,138.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 listed the four Marions with Marion, Iowa, the smallest at 4,138 people; today it is the largest of them, having grown past 40,000 as a suburb of Cedar Rapids, while Marion, Ohio (about 37,000) and Marion, Indiana (about 28,000) have flattened or shrunk since their industrial peaks. Collier's did not mention that the Ohio city's most famous resident, newspaper publisher Warren G. Harding, was sitting in the White House as the volume went to press; his tomb, the Harding Memorial, was dedicated there in 1931 and his home is now a national historical site. The Indiana city's "National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers" survives as a Department of Veterans Affairs medical center. The sketch of Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox," still holds in outline, though modern historians give more attention to his slaveholding and his part in campaigns against the Cherokee than nineteenth-century admirers did.
Written for this edition, 2026.